A museum dedicated to the culture and identity of Lithuanian Jews opened to visitors on Thursday in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. The exhibition centre, which is part of the Gaon Museum of Jewish History, presents the history of the Lithuanian Jews, also known as Litvaks. The museum is in the building of a former Jewish grammar school. It was officially opened on Wednesday evening in the presence of Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys and the German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein. “If you take a history book, Jews are usually portrayed through the tragedy of the …